Introduction

The Bootsplash Progress Bar Patch is an unofficial package for the
Gentoo distribution. The patch adds support for a progress bar, text
and animations to the bootsplash image shown during startup/shutdown.
For this to work I had to patch several files out of the baselayout
package.

The goal was to have a somewhat smooth progress bar with as little changes
to the files as possible. The files which were finally affected are: